CVS Pharmacy Inc. conspired with several of the nation’s largest pharmacy middlemen to hide the lowest prices they offered for generic drugs, two union health plans say.
The allegations against CVS, its pharmacy benefit manager subsidiary Caremark Rx, and other PBMs, including Express Scripts Inc. and UnitedHealth Group Inc.’s OptumRx Inc., adequately stated federal racketeering claims, Chief Judge William E. Smith of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island said. Smith allowed the plaintiffs to add the claims to their original fraud complaint against CVS.
The claims against CVS and the PBMs are emblematic of an increasing ...
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